Stalin, Truman, Churchill Open Big Three Meet
The much awaited Big Three conference formally opened at Berlin. The scene took place in an attractive
room of a modern country estate in the Potsdam area. Photographed together for the first time are Stalin,
President Truman and Churchill, just before the opening of the conference. While the conference got off to a
fast start, it is still unknown just how long it will take to complete all issues to be considered.
Rationing No Drawback to North Carolina Farmer
He ain’t worried—no gas, no oil, no tires impede this Appalachian in the pursuit of his weekly grocery
buying chore. He hooks his steer to his sled with wooden runners, picks up a smidget of something
to eat, and pulls it back to his craggy home. It may be a mite slow, but he doesn’t have to argue with the
OPA about it. The North Carolina steer can go wherever a shod animal could climb, and the narrow sled,
self-braking, will shame the most prudent wagon on steep slopes.
Until His Big Brother Returns
In another split second, the batter is going to lay this one down on
the Unc and hope he doesn't trip over those trouser legs on his way
towards first. At the rate the war is going, his big brother inay be
hack to reclaim that baseball suit before Babe here grows into it. At any
rate, he will make good use of it for a few more weeks.
Sets New Swim Event Record
Betty Lachok of Akron, Ohio, is pictured after she had come in first
in the three mile swim event at the Women’s National A. A. U. long
distance championships held at Ciementon Lake, N. J. Miss I.achok
set a new record for the distance in 1 hour, 17 minutes, 36.7 seconds.
The meet set a record in turnout as wel as outstanding records.
Sightless Prodigy
Blind Jimmy Osborn, nine, Brit
ish piano prodigy, is greeted on his
arrival at the Parkins Institution for
the Blind. Jimmy will receive Itis
education at the institution, which
was arranged for by his foster fath
ers of the U. S. 9th air force.
Aehoo! Gesundhcit!
Scries of allergy injections is be
ing made. Punctures are marked oft
1 in indelible pencil. This method
is used to determine the individual
1 causes of hay fever and He
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
PARAMOUNT’S studio press
bureau reported an unusu
al number of requests from
servicemen to visit the Betty
Hutton-Sonnv Tufts sets for
“Cross My Heart.” They
couldn’t figure out the rea
son for that avalanche of
requests, till some bright boy came
up with the answer. Seems that
somebody had announced in print
that Betty had posed for photo
graphs on the set with two air corps
lieutenants, Robert Drew and Bruce
Shaw, P-38 pilots stationed at near
by Van Nuys—and Betty had sat on
one officer's lap while the cameras
clicked!
-V
It all turned out perfectly. A pub
licity man introduced Nancy Nor
man, pretty singer with Sammy
Kaye’s orchestra, and Dick Brown,
who’s featured on his own Sunday
MBS program; the press agent’s ob
ject, a “romance item” that he
could send to radio editors (who get
awfully sick of those same phoney
“romances”!). But — this time it
NANCY NORMAN
worked differently; Nancy and Dick
will be married in September, when
his brother comes home from the
South Pacific. The same thing hap
pened when that same publicity man
introduced Patti Pickens of the
Pickens Sisters and tenor Robert
Simmons, also for publicity pur
poses. They’ve been married four
years.
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Newspaper columnists get lots of
“no-romance" items. The latest con
cerns Lizabeth Scott, making her
screen debut in Hal Wallis' “You
Came Along.” There’ll be no roman
tic interest for her, we're told, till
her film career is definitely estab
I lished. Announcements like this
usually backfire—just let a gal say
she won’t fall in love, and next
thing you know, she’s eloping with
I somebody.
--
Helen Mack, who’s producer of \
; NBC’s “Date with Judy” and the
; new “Beulah Show,” gets no vaca
tion this summer. In addition to
handling the direction of the two
network shows Helen has been
signed for two movie roles—enough
to keep any woman busy.
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Ted Malone wants .von to help
him. He’s keeping a promise made
i to his G.I. friends overseas by dedi
cating his broadcast series, heard
1 week days over the American net
work, to rediscovering America. He
i wants mail on “What War Has Hone
I to Your Community.”
-V
Alfred Hitchcock, who recently
completed "Spellbound" and is now
preparing "Notorious” for David O.
Selzniek, is about to send some of
his spine-chilling yarns over the
airways. "Too many mystery pro
grams come on the air asking peo
ple to turn out the lights, lock the
doors, and prepare to be frightened
to death," says he, "when actually
nothing takes place that would scare
anybody. When my program comes
on, it will probably be a failure.
While listening, the audience will be
come so frightened they likely will
turn it off."
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David O. Selzniek, who developed
Ingrid Bergman into a star, again
has gone to Stoc kholm for his latest
"find.” He’s Frank Sundstrom, star
of the same Koyal Dramatic the
ater in which Miss Bergman stud
ied, and has appeared in eight Euro
pean films.
Members of the ’‘Duel in the Sun”
i company who have been on loca
tion, have organized the first Cactus
i and Iodine club. All members who
! have been stuck by Arizona’s Cholla
cactus are eligible; Jennifer Jones'
| make-up woman, Clare Kaufman, is
a charter member, she sat on one!
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ODDS AND ENDS—Ginny Simms
has a special “hospital dress,” a bright
flowered print, which she wears when
J she sings to wounded soldiers, the boys
in the wards like it. . . . Working 16
hours a day, 7 days a week, Conrad
Nagel, director of the air’s “Si-'ver The
ater,” earned 17-50 per week when he
started his career as an actor. . . . Bonita
| Granville, who’ll portray a smart law
1 yer in her role in "The Lie Detector,"
j is just 22; she’s been an uctress since
I she was three. Arthur l.ake of the
j "Blimdie” series thinks maybe lwi
1 should be insulted—a goat, mascot-sta
I blemate of a famous race horse, has
j been named "Dagwood,” for himl
Superforts All Over Japan
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Three B-29 superfortresses are seen in flight over Fujiyama. Japan,
during recent strike against the enemy. The famous Fujiyama volcano
forms a colorful backdrop for the big bombers. Some "authorities” claim
that the entire island can be wrecked by unloading tons of bombs into
the mouth of Fujiyama and other Japanese active volcanos.
Fishes in His Private Pool
It is not every boy that has his own private fishing pool. This
young farm boy baits hook hopefully and prepares to fish in the family
pond. Private waters like these ean be used the year around, and hun
dreds of inland farm kids who never had a chance to fish are grow
ing up into a larger generation of sportsmen. The government has
encouraged building of private ponds. Some states, such as Missouri, offer
special Inducements for farm pools, not only stocking with fish but supply
ing at cost shade trees and water plants for the pools. Even in postwar, the
addition of fish to the farm diet will be welcomed.
Bringing Them Back Home Again
With thousands of 1’. S. Troops scheduled to fly home from Kurope
each month, the most effective air-sea rescue system ever devised
in safeguarding the men has been put into effect. (1) The waters are
well protected, while from the Azores to the U. S. many ships are on
guard.
Fixes Grave for Dog Mascot
l Cfi
Pfc. Joseph Samson of Detroit, Mich., Axes the grave of his pet
dog, • Sgt. Chipps,” who died In the “line of duty" after participating in
four Southwest PaciAc campaigns. Men of Samson’s outAt, a signal de
tachment with the 1st cavalry division, built the grave on Luzon. The
1 d*g sniffing at the headstone la allegedly one of Chipps’ pups.
Christmas in July
Recruiting of 65,000 additional
workers for railroads, needed ur
i gently to carry out the army’s re
i deployment program, gets under
way in Chicago with CpI. Edward
Solotke, 6th service command M.P.,
decked out as Santa Claus in this
Christmas in Jnly crisis.
Man of War
One of the busiest men in the ad
ministration, Under Secretary of
War Robert P. Patterson, relaxes,
whenever he can get away from
Washington, by running his farm at
Cold Spring. N. Y.
Postman and His Pal
“Butch," who belongs to Joe Ham
mer, 13, a patient in Johns Hopkins
hospital, Baltimore, has not missed
a day in meeting his postman pal,
Arthur l’ritchard. He makes the
daily rounds with the mailman,
grabbing Ms trouser leg to urge
more speed. .
Back From Prison
Col. Hubert C. Zemke, 31, as he
arrived In New York City. The air
ace, credited with 30's Nail planes
before being shot down and taken
prisoner, was released from Stettin.
